Anyone making jazz music in Ardour?

This track is older than released date, (Release Date: January 21, 2022 ). Uploaded few times before somewhere :laughing:

https://audiomack.com/komarnejanko/song/jazz-at-museum

The Libre Music Challenge sometimes does one-synth-only rounds: Libre Music Challenge
And there’s of course the OSC: KVR One-Synth-Challenge

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very interesting piece - initially the various elements seemed to fight each other - especially the click on the right (?) channel - but after a while everything blended perfectly

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Aahh, I forget KVR :sweat_smile: thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

I appreciate your feedback. I do try to work ASAP when I can. I’ve found it’s more effective for me to work in this way, as it allows me to get things done. My main focus is creating demos rather than final mixes or arrangements. I don’t often have the chance to do music as such – my work mainly entails making small adjustments, turning knobs, experimenting and exploring sounds and effects. I’m using MIDI sequences and samples/loops in order to produce something without necessarily knowing what it will ultimately be. :control_knobs: :level_slider:

KVR One-Synth-Challenge - Rules

aahhh…I find there are perhaps too many rules, which can sometimes be a little overwhelming.

I’ve also made some jazzY stuff, but just for video so far. The only one that’s posted is the theme and backing track for a buddy’s podcast pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-aC0GbbjY
it’s all sequenced though, haven’t tracked anything myself.

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Here is something I put together that called got called “neurojazz rockaton”

https://tinyurl.com/jmantraayeaye

Strange and interesting at the same time. Is that a vocoder type of thing you are using for the vocals?
Anything else?
The title also suggests that very experimental things are happening here.

The vocals were just downloaded from looperman, but does sound like a vocoder was used. I have also used various components of the project I am working on called LogicalArdour which is supposed to give Ardour GarageBand functionality.

For the main vocal, I used “Edge Vocal” track template/preset which tries to mimic the "Edge Vocals"preset found in GarageBand.

I have used two other LogicalArdour scripts to stretch the two loops that I downloaded to the BPM of the rest of the project. I think I may have used another one of my scripts to transpose one of the audio loops to the key of the everything else in the project, but I am not 100% positive.

I am also using a “Session Player” Surge XT track template/preset on the one track which mimics the functionality of the Session Player found in Logic Pro 11

Here is screenshot of my mixer page which gives a rough idea:

Hi,

Not exactly jazz, but certainly jazz-influenced (still an unfinished WIP):

Speak Through Me

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Tämä on todella hyvää musaa! Pidän paljon tästä. Miksaus on todella hienosti tehty!

This is excellent music! I like this a lot. The mixing is nicely done!

Not a full tune, but a snippet from a recording session about a year and a half ago: https://youtu.be/eL9UXUTQHD0

This was captured on Pro Tools in a studio, but mixing was on Ardour on Linux.

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Yep, that’s the real thing! :clap: :clap:

Brilliant! Thank you!

Sounds lovely. Bravo.

Here’s another “not quite jazz” piece (I don’t have the chops to play real jazz :laughing:), but the lead guitar on the chorus was explicitly an exercise in trying to play John Scofield-like licks with John Scofield-like tone, so it’s at least got some jazz influence:

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I’m late to this party, but here’s a jazz improv with some friends. I used Ardour to record it, but didn’t do much in the way of mixing or other processing: Stream Killer Joe - Improv Session - 2019-08-23 by Michael Willis | Listen online for free on SoundCloud